A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

Nestled in the hills of Tuscany are gorgeous, multicolored hot springs.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

Every day is like Christmas on this street where the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene comes to life.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

A treasure trove of Renaissance-era funerary art in a Roman church built on top of Nero's grave.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

A modern sliver of architecture in Roma.

This mosaic-lined medieval church was built by the world's first admiral and still holds mass in ancient Greek.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.